this was a 6-3 opinion that was written by the hard-core right-winger john paul stevens and i say that facetiously of course. but what they said was it was constitutional. it was legal and it was proper for indiana to institute a voter i.d. system. it was proper that a republican legislature had decided to enact this and that while democrats had complained and said this was an overtly partisan method the supreme court also said that is part of the electoral process and that is why citizens and the their representatives who made those decisions. the third day that i would come up with when you ask if this is a racialization question is the year 2012. that is the year we are in right now. earlier this year the richmond dispatch issued an editorial that said i like my orioles served medium rare. in that particular editorial they noted that they have strong opposition to the voter i.d. laws in virginia they were going to the legislature. they thought that they were racist and they thought they would disproportionately impact the pool of color. in april they issued that editorial that they